No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

Joys divided are increased.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

If you want learning, you must work for it.